Communicative order: 'In savants, says Snyder, the top layer of mental processing - conceptual thinking, making conclusions - is somehow stripped away. Without it, savants can access a startling capacity for recalling endless detail or for performing lightning-quick calculations. Snyder's theory has a radical conclusion of its own: He believes it may be possible someday to create technologies that will allow any nonautistic person to exploit these abilities.' [Discover].

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